BAKKACIMA BLOG

Video Teleconferencing service, Zoom, announced that the platform now has more than 300 million daily active meeting participants. Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan, last month shared that the company had hit 200 million daily active meeting participants. That means the company has added more than 100 million users in roughly three weeks' time. Previously, Zoom reported that it had a total of 10 million users at the end of December 2019.This incredible stat was shared during a company webinar with Zoom CEO Yuan and later detailed on the company’s website.

The 2019-20  Ligue 1  season has been abandoned after the French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe's announcement that no sporting events will be allowed to take place until September. Philippe has confirmed that there is no possibility of Ligue 1 resuming until September amid the ongoing fight against coronavirus, with France still in a state of lockdown. “The big sporting affairs cannot occur before September,” he said in a national assembly on Tuesday. “The 2019-20 professional football season cannot return.” The French professional league (LFP)  announced plans to restart the campaign on June 17 last week, and UEFA has set a deadline of August 2 for domestic leagues to reach their natural conclusions.

It is now official, Twitter has finally announced that it is  turning off its Twitter via SMS service for the majority of its global user base.  "You can no longer receive tweet notifications via SMS. Twitter is retiring the feature." On Monday twitter said via twitter support: "we want to continue to help keep your account safe. We’ve seen vulnerabilities with SMS, so we’ve turned off our Twitter via SMS service, except for a few countries. Everyone will still have access to important SMS messages needed to log in to and manage their accounts."

The office of New York attorney general has sent a very strong-worded letter to Amazon ,  telling the giant company that the measures it has taken regarding the COVID-19 pandemic “are so inadequate that they may violate several provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act,” and firing outspoken workers sends “a threatening message to other employees.” Continue reading...

The Australian government's new coronavirus contact tracing app which was released on Sunday, was downloaded 1million times in just 5 hours of launch, that is, approximately 1 out of every 25 Australians is using the app.   COVIDSafe  uses Bluetooth to connect with other phones within 1.5 metres (4.9 feet) which also have the app installed. If they are in contact for over 15 minutes (fiftheen minutes), the app records data such as the date, time, contact distance and duration, and the other user's encrypted identification code. This information is stored on the user's phone for 21 days, after which it is automatically deleted.

The perpetrator  "mr. Patrick", is a primary school teacher at Okundaye Primary School. And he is the fifth son of his parents. He also has boasted countless times that he is above the law.   His father, a 78-year-old Benson Ekpenisi, from Owan-Nta Aliosimi in Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State, lamented that he and his wife have suffered a lot in the hands of their fifth son, Patrick Ekpenisi.

Yeezy is a complicated asset. Kanye West owns 100% of it. But it’s also functionally tied, at least for five-plus years based on the documents available. West has directed his team to provide what we feel is an authentic numeric look into Kanye, Inc. Continue reading.....

The Imo State Police Command has arrested a man by name, Johnbosco Ejiogu, for stabbing his mother and then setting their home ablaze. The incident took place on Friday at Umudagu Mbieri, Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the state. State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Orlando Ikeokwu said that Ejiogu perpetrated the acts following an altercation between him and his mother. The PPRO cited that only a swift reaction from neighbours and police prevented the suspect from killing himself and his mother in the burning house.

'' One easy way to handle forgiveness   is to operate on the principle of advance forgiveness,   where you choose to forgive people in advance   for future wrongs that they commit ''. In this article, we shall be looking at forgiveness, meaning, parties involved in forgiveness, the purpose and process of forgiveness. Definition:  According to Cambridge Dictionary , forgiveness is to stop blaming or being angry with someone for something that person has done, or not punish them for something or to allow someone to not have to pay a debt. in this definition, we see three things involved in forgiveness; To stop blaming or being angry with someone for something that person has done;-  a . To stop blaming- This means   you should let go of the effect of their actions or the constant recollection of how they did wrong, but instead, look for a solution or a way to forge ahead. b. To stop being angry- This means letting go of the anger and resentment that a person...

The President of the United States on Thursday, suggested that COVID-19 could be killed by introducing disinfectant or a “very powerful light” into a person’s body.  Trump said during the White House’s daily coronavirus briefing. "I see the disinfectant where it knocks the coronavirus out in a minute, one minute,"  "And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it’d be interesting to check that."

This  incident happened inside a market at Eneka in Port Harcourt, River state. A policeman who is a member of the Rivers state taskforce on COVID-19 lockdown, has allegedly killed a female colleague who is a nursing mother. According to reports, the policewoman was trying to stop the said police officer and other members of the taskforce from destroying the wares of the market women, when the erring officer opened fire. The bullet

The robbery gang involved in the operation was made up of five men. They were carrying out their robbery at Lekki lagos state but unknown to them, a high ranking police officer was in the area. The Police Officer called for backup and they arrived in no distant time and eliminated the Robbers by using one of the robbers as bait when he was shot on the leg.  The one shot on the leg made some interesting revelations concerning their mode of operation and how they get information.

Weird things do happen but this one is so scary. These two Chinese doctors in Wuhan who were critically ill with COVID-19  woke up to find that their skin turned dark after the virus damaged their livers.   Dr. Yi Fan and Dr. Hu Weifeng, both 42, were diagnosed with the novel Coronavirus while treating patients at the Wuhan Central Hospital in January.   Their abnormal skin colour is caused by

This woman's bravery has been reported after she saved her baby’s life by rescuing him from the jaws of a deadly crocodile. The 30-year-old woman identified as Maurina Musisinyana is reported to have left her two children playing under an umbrella on the bank of the Runde River in Zimbabwe while she went fishing nearby.

If you remember the Facebook’s dedicated Gaming app, yes, it has gone live now on  Android. And this is even months before its planned release on june this year.  The social media giant pushed the app out two months prior to its scheduled unveiling amid a global pandemic that’s left people all over the world isolated at home. Over the weekend, The New York Times announced the upcoming release, noting that Facebook’s

The prosecution of Governor Nasir El-Rufai's son Bello,  has been set in motion by the women's group over alleged "gang-rape threat".    The Nation newspaper reported that the women organisations in a petition dated April the 16th, 2020 and addressed to the AG of the Federation and Minister for Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) called for the investigation and prosecution of Bello.

Man commits suicide by hanging after his wife told him their only child,  whom they welcomed after 12 years of marriage,   was fathered by another man .   Jacob Numku, a  farmer and petty trader  from Toto community in Nasarawa State, was told by his wife Juliet that their five-month-old baby was actually fathered by a young man named Uchenna, a petty trader too.

It is going to be an entirely new different platform of financial services. The company started exploring the idea lately last year and accessed  possibilities with banks and credit unions. According to TechCrunch, the internal project has led to the creation of physical and virtual debit cards.

 The number of confirmed cases is really increasing each day and  Nigeria  has now recorded 49 new cases of COVID-19, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).   The NCDC in a tweet on April 18th,  reported  23 new cases in

This man was caught trapping vulture with snuff in Onne,  Port Harcourt , south south of Nigeria  and was planning to use them as roasted chicken for people to buy and eat. He said he has been doing this  business  for sometime now. For those of you that buys roasted chicken especially from the mallams should  be careful. Watch the video here

The federal government and the Presidency regrets to announce the demise of the Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari. The deceased had tested positive to the novel virus "COVID-19", and had since been receiving treatment. He gave up the ghost on Friday, April 17, 2020. Funeral arrangements will be announced soon.

The enterprise video conferencing service is not just a popular tool to stay in touch with family and friends during the global pandemic, some journalists have been  documenting  how people are relying on Zoom to host sex parties, which

The Brazilian is keen on a Premier League return Philippe Coutinho is closing in on a loan move back to the Premier League with  Chelsea , according to  Sport . 

 Lionel Messi is "a global example" when it comes to the debate over footballers and pay cuts during the global pandemic. The Barcelona  star issued a statement on behalf of the Barcelona first team on March 30th to  confirm that

The data of more than 600,000  Email.it  users is currently being sold on the dark web. The Italian email service provider said in a statement on Monday, "Unfortunately, we must confirm that we have suffered a hacker attack," The Email.it hack came to light on Sunday, when the hackers went on Twitter to promote a website on the dark web where they were selling the company's data. The hackers going by the name..

Six (6) new cases of Corona virus infections have been recorded in Nigeria, bringing the total number of Nigerians infected to 238.

The giant instant messaging company WhatsApp is imposing additional restriction on how often a message can be shared on its platform in its latest effort to tackle the spread of misinformation.

The United Kingdom just joined forces with their counterparts the United States in resisting a plan by the Federal Government to hand over nearly  $110 million  of funds the American authorities say was stolen by late dictator Sani Abacha to Kebbi State Governor, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu.

Akin Abayomi who is the Lagos state commissioner of health has sounded an alarm of local transmission of Coronavirus increasing in the state.